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breaks if a broken heart is what you give when it falls when it breaks ♪ ♪ then a broken heart is what you get when it falls when it breaks if a broken heart is ♪ ♪ what you give when it falls when it breaks then a broken heart ♪ is what you get >> jimmy: i want to thank peerz brosnan, greta gerwig. apologies to matt damon, we ran out of time. tomorrow night, mel brooks, "science bob" pflugfelder and music from the airborne toxic event. once again, alice russell. good night.
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♪ ooh ooh explanations are too a pain in me and then you fall quiet communication fade we find ourselves back ♪ ♪ again and eat us up two-thousand and twelve let me back up and hide maybe you're not a preacher ♪ so don't you serve it up if you were me just for a while but that's just bitter of you cause you are sad inside if you ♪ ♪ were me just for a while maybe you think about it
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the more you realize ♪ tonight on "nightline," stop anded and frisked. crime fighting tactic or conspiracy. some swear it drives crime to record lows, but community are paying an unfair price. tonight we go inside a political firestorm. tle new suspehree new suspe boston bombings. now reports in the aftermath of the deadly attacks. and back to the crime scene that changed amanda knox's life. amid continued accusations, she takes about her plans for a brighter tomorrow.
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hello, everyone. thanks for joining us tonight. for millions of americans, the site of a policeman instills a sense of calm, faith that order is being kept. that the good guys are batching. but for many others, thousands stopped on the 12r50streets of york because they look or act a certain way? encounters with the blue and white breed fear, frustration and anger at a force that some say is bent more on intimidation than serving and protecting. so here ice my co-anchor bill weir. >> hands against the wall. >>. >> reporter: it's the kind of scene that could play out on any given day in any city in america. men in blue stopping men of color. as tensions rise. in in case, a robbery suspect is
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caught. >> you're not free to leave. >> what am i being arrested for? i didn't do anything wrong. >> reporter: the cops manage to keep it by the book. >> i'm sorry you're upset. i'm sorry for the inconvenience. >> reporter: this is an nypd draining drill for the proper way to do what's known as a 250. that controversial tactic to stop crime before it happens. 250s rarely happen with this much courtesy and this much probable cause. they say the nypd stops and frisks way too much innocent men of color for no good reason. >> he was going through his pockets. >> do you want to go to jail? what for? what? >> shout your mouth. >> what am i getting arrested for? >> for being a [ bleep ] mutt. >> so that's what i'm arrested
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for? being a mutt. >> reporter: frustrated for how long he was being stopped, a 16-year-old son of a cop named alvin says he hit record on his ipod in 2011. as two undercover officers approached. >> our job is to stop those were suspicious. >> listen to me, when you're walking the block with your hood off. >> it's within of the few known recordings of something that happens around 2,000 times in new york. but whether this is the exception or the rule is a debate dividing the city. >> i don't think it was a mistake for alvin or any ott young people i've talked to permly. >> reporter: when these activists heard the recording, they spent eight months convincing alvin to go public for their short documentary "hunted and the hated." >> is this the worst encounter you eve had with nypd? he said no, it's not.
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i've had worst. >> why you push me like that for? >> why you push me that for? >> take a [ bleep ] baung. >> -- walk. >> why you push me? >> what happens to officers. >> there is a complaint process and civilian complaint board. >> ray kelly is the man in charge of the nypd. >> we have a system to address that. i'm not talking specific about this case because i don't know about it, but we're human beings, we make mistakes. and we may have people who inappropriately stop individuals. but by and large, i don't believe that's the case. it is event specific. >> reporter: since taking over in 2002, kelly has resided over the most dramatic decrease in crime in modern history. kelly believes in proactive policing. and done properly, the 250 is a supreme court-approved method of stopping crime before it happens. but here is the controversial
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part of the thousands of daily stop and frisks, only 6% lead to an arrest. and little over 100 a% turn up weapon. critics say this is proof it doesn't work. mayor michael bloomberg disagrees. >> that's the reason we need it, to deter people from carrying guns. we are the first preventers. >> in a fiery speech this week, bloomberg chastised nypd critics. >> they seem to believe the department should be run in the standard of political correctness, 23409 public safety. >> reporter: cops say it only works with the strong backing of city hall, especially in the face of this statistic. even though blacks and hispanics are a minority here, around 84% are young men of color. how many times have you been stopped and frisked? >> seven times. >> reporter: and you're how old?
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>> 17. >> reporter: kasim walters has seen gang violence and men his age bleed out on the streets. but after rough 250s. >> he turned me back here. bang i remember him banging my head -- >> reporter: he says he's more afraid of the law and the thugs. >> reporter: he shows me the memorial of a 250 gone bad that fills him with even more dread. >> lo look at that, it's still here. >> when kimani gray adjusted his waistband, to officers ended up shooting him zen times. they claim he pulled this loaded .38 revolver later co-lovco recovered at the scene. but kasim doesn't believe him. four days of angry demonstrations proves he's not alone. >> when things like this happens, the police are never going to get the benefit of the doubt. so we have a relationship with the cop. you know, until ray kelly can give us answers. >> reporter: new york city councilman is a mentor of
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kasim's and a leading critic of nypd's methods like police report which shows the reason given for most stops is either a high crime neighborhood or a suspect engaged in forgetive movemen -- fertive movements. i don't believe they stopped every italian person they saw when sthepted to stop organized crime. i think we deserve the same respect. >> i've been around for a long time in this department. our relations now are better than they've ever been. one of the reasons is our police officers are now minority majority. we are now more reflective of that diversity than ever before. >> reporter: but more minority cops doesn't mean all of them are supporters of stop and frisk. >> i was stopped by police officers because of my race, because of what i looked like. they stereotypes. they racially profiled.
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i knew i didn't want to do that. >> pedro is one of two cops now denouncing his own department's poll spi policies. and he said he made a hidden recording of his own. >> this is about stopping the right people at the right place. he said there's a perverse quota in place driving officers to stop minority kids for no reason. >> they retaliate by giving you bad evaluations. >> reporter: after writing just two 250s over an entire year, sorano called for a meeting with his deputy inspector to appeal a bad evaluation. he also said he wore a wire and recorded this. >> again take mott haven where we had the most problems. the most problems we had was robberies and grand larcenies. >> and who are the ones rob? >> male blacks 14 to 20, 21. >> right there, i lost it.
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you want me to stop everybody, the good people and the bad people. >> reporter: the nine-year veteran is a witness for the center for constitutional rights, an advocacy group suing the nypd, not for money, but to change its stop and risk poll spips -- poll spips. the nypd said the inspector was talking about specific suspects and that sorano was fishing to collect damming evidence for the lawsuit. for context, the inspector said this. >> the 99% of these people in the community are hardworking people. and to stop two people, you know, to see only two things going on, that's almost like you're purposefully not doing your job. >> this is a business. we have a $5 billion budget a year. we run it like a business. it's fair to ask the employees to do their fair share. >> how does a number of 250s a
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month, a week, a year, affect an officer's career. >> if an officer continually doesn't do what the commander wants him to do, and i don't think it's going to positively affect his career for sure. but i don't think it negatively affects him. >> if you don't meet the numbers, you're a bad cop. that's how they see it. >> reporter: but pedro has no doubt he's negatively affected his career by breaking the thin, blue line. >> there are bad guys who want to hurt me because i'm wearing the uniform. and the hierarchy wants to hurt me because i spoke the truth. >> but commissioner kelly insists race is not a factor. it's just that most of his officers are sent where most crimes are reported and that up to 75% of violent crime victims describe their attacker as a black male. >> the percentage of people who stopped, it's 53% african-american. so really, ooafrican-americans e
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being understopped in relation to the people being described as the perpetrators of violent crime. the stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color. they are being disproportionately victimized. >> nypd, keep your hands off me. >> reporter: just curious what you would say to the kid, the good kid who's grown new these rough neighborhoods who resents the fact that he gets stopped five, six, a dozen times in his young life and forms his opinion of authority around these exchanges. what would you say to that kid? >> we're trying to save his life and the life of other young people who are disproportionately victimized on the streets of this city and other cities throughout america. >> reporter: the need for understanding, thanks to bill weir for that. next up, three new suspects named in the boston bombing investigation. who are they? and why have authorities charged them? ♪
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>> two pressure cooker bombs stuffed in two back back the, allegedly detonated by two brohm brothers. since the release of the boston bombing suspects was released on tv, the number has been two until today. authorities charged three more men in the investigations, men they say may have tried to protect a man considered by many to be public enemy number one. the fbi has been suspicious of
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the friend since the day of the manhunt when s.w.a.t. teams raided the college campus and agents took two of them into custody on immigration charges. those two, both from kazakhstan, azamat tazhayakov and dias kadyrbayev, traveled with the suspect tsarnaev last year and proudly posing if thr photograph. >> dias kadyrbayev denies the charges. he helped in the investigation. >> a third person charged, a u.s. citizen, robel ful phil had been friends with tsarnaev since high school. he appeared to be an articulate, intelligent young man. >> the idiosyncrasies of ten years of rigorous work. >> reporter: but agents say
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dzhokhar's friends recognized him immediately when the surveillance photos were made public. >> we consider them to be armed and extremely dangerous. >> and decided top him by getting rid of potential evidence. >> reporter: t . >> the government allegations that he saw him and recognized him immediately, we dispute. we look forward to prove og our case in court. but the fbi tested jo har and asked him if he was the bomber. lol, laughing out loud. and then another exchange. come to my room and take whatever you want. the fbi said the three went to dzhokhar's room that night, down this hall on the third floor to room number 7341. according to to the complaint, they took a backpack containing fireworks with the prouder removed. and dzhokhar's lap time computer. that night, there was the violent confrontation with authorities and the manhunt for
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is dzhokhar began. it was then the next morning that the fbi said one of the friends went behind their apartment building and dumped the backpack and fireworks in this dumpster. >> he did not know those items were involved in a bombing or of any interest in a bombing or of any evidential value. >> reporter: but the dumpster's content ended up in a land fill where the fbi searched for three days and found what it said were those fireworks that the fbi allege s the three friends trie to hide. >> this is crazy. this is absurd. this doesn't make sense. i don't believe what they're saying. hopefully the trial proves that they're innocent. >> the fbi believes the powder from the fireworks in that backpack was used to make the bombs. there's no indication so far that the friend knew about the plot in advance, but in a footnote in the criminal complaint, one of the friends is quoting as saying that dzhokhar told him a month before the bombing that he knew how to make a bomb. terry? >> the three young men in a world of trouble. thanks to brian ross for that.
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one day after the release of her book "waiting to be heard" amanda knox has captivated the world's attention once again and left us to wonder who killed meredith kercher.
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tonight we're going to re-examine the crime scene where knox's study abroad roommate that ties no dna connections to amanda nax. >> dpid you kilmer dit kercher? >> no. >> were you there stla that night? >> no. >> do you know anything you have not told police? >> no. i don't. i wasn't there. >> reporter: i traveled to the house where they all once lived. hello. now inhabited by bangladeshi immigrants who showed me the tiny room of the murder. in the bedroom of the murder, that bloody shoe print, the hand print, the dna all belonged to a man with a known criminal record, rudy gouday. they say you cleaned the premise of your dna and left rudy's.
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>> that's impossible. it's impossible to see dna, much less identify whose dna it is. >> reporter: a female officer later testifies that amanda knox is doing cartwheels in the waiting area. she says she was just stretching after a long wait. >> i never did a cartwheel. i did do the splits. >> reporter: but you can say this does not look like grief. this does not read as grief. >> i think everyone's reaction to something horrible is different. >> reporter: you say you spent 1,400 nights in prison. for a crime you did not commit. >> i spent a long time in prison. i had to grow up in prison for something i did not do. >> reporter: ten years from now, paint a portrait of your life for me. >> well, i hope this legal battle will be over.

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